The Home Secretary needed to hear and see what ‘it is really like’. Still, the cynical posturing of a despised government that has achieved only greater suffering across our society. This toxic and redundant government must go, a long with its litter of ill-conceived policies that benefit too few and harm too many.

Time for a new Party, a new government or start an election campaign; Labour wake-up and get some fresh talent!!

Well we were overwhelmed with the misery for absence of choice in this general election and have found a coalition will rule over us.

There’s been much discussion and forewarning about cuts but I’ve not heard much talk about reviving our beleaguered public services. Indeed, this hybrid government has nothing to be thankful the recently removed Labour government who managed over a decade to destroy the core of many public services. However without comprehensive and competent public services and staff how will crime victims fare? Is it even worth asking what is going to happen to the pernicious cost-cutting Criminal Injuries Compensation Act (1995) introduced with lightening speed by the newly elevated (Lord) Michael Howard when Home Secretary; will it be further cuts in compensation for innocent victims?

It is a grim time to be living in Britian. What value will this hybrid government be for crime victims and where do they place the diverse public service needs of crime victims?

Torn between fascination and contempt that the wife of the ex-prime minister made a documentary about the state of violence in British streets I resolved my confusion by turning my television off!

If anyone should know the causes it is Cherie Blair QC and her husband. Our ex-prime minister more conservative and who oversaw the rapid dismantling of our welfare system and health care. Our starved essential public services are bludgeoned with performance indicators and condescending rhetoric. Our diminished public services, destitute older people, ill-resourced education, health and social services and still no repeal of the punitive cost-cutting 1995 Criminal Injuries Compensation Act.

Indeed, how could this happen and what are the consequences for the people of the UK now – maybe ask your husband?